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After having received the gift of HomeExchange.com membership, Valerie Knight set our for her first Home Exchange, a trip to Vancouver Island in Canada’s Western province, British Columbia. In Valerie’s words… This is my first year of Home Exchange and first experience of exchanging homes, what a success it has been. Within a couple of weeks of my listing going live I was contacted by a couple from Parksville on Vancouver Island who have family living near me in Lancing, UK. Flights were booked and towards the end…

Meet Alan and Peggy, HomeExchange.com members and owners of Acme Cafe in Vancouver, Canada and try your hand at a recipe from their restaurant! “We have done two home exchanges… we really can’t pick a favourite! They were very different experiences: one an apartment in New York City and the other a house in Berkeley, California. When we travel, we seek out restaurants that are similar to our own because we like to know what comparable restaurants are doing for comparable prices; it’s hard to turn off the…